With friends in high places, law-evading ploys and piles of money in the bank, veteran settler leader Ze'ev Hever and his organization Amana are seemingly immune to Israeli legal action.

Theoretically, the Civil Administration - the Israel Defense Forces body responsible for infrastructure law enforcement in the West Bank - should have jumped into action now that seven permanent dwellings are under construction in the settler outpost of Mitzpeh Danny (10 kilometers east of Ramallah). The outpost, established 15 years ago, is entering its final development stages after a lengthy period in which...

in syria they speak syrian arabic, in lebanon its lebanese arabic, in
egypt its egyptian arabic, in jordan its jordanian arabic, in iraq its
iraqi arabic. there are more english speaking countries than arabic
speaking countries why wasnt israel established in england? why did
england establish israel in palestine?

Israel is already doing what it suppose to do in their own country. As
for so-called invented people, palestinians, they are free to go their
relatives in any arabic speaking country and take their violence...

Amana is doing a good thing by building permanent housing for the poor
settlers who have had to live in ramshackle "flimsy structures and
trailers. So what if it is illegal. Wasn't this land promised to the
children of Abraham and their descendents, the Jewish people? They
deserve to live in nice houses.

Geneva convention, and the Balfour Declaration. There is, BTW, NO such term as "disputed land." You are INSIDE or you are OUTSIDE of your declared and approved borders. There is NO other legal condition.

Colonists were prohibited from moving over the Allegenies, but they did
anyway. Southerers were allowed by Mexico into Texas under restrictions
that they ignored. Vermont settlements were illegal, at least according
to New York. And lots of squatters squated on land to which they had no
title.

Amana is just another organisation, this time not under the cover of the
state or the army, that is part of the more then six decade old policy
of establishing a Judeo-Apartheid system between the sea and the river.
It is the shovel of the bulldozer called nationalist Zionism. Don't act
so surprise and naive, Shana, read the news reports of the 1950s when
Palestinians were kicked out of their villages in Israel proper. Then,
the IDF did most of the dirty work, now the more efficient cooperation
of 'civil authority', IDF and Amana works better, confusing the outside
world. They all can complain about the other, but the end result is that
Palestinian lifes get destroyed and Jewish nationalist criminals get
whatever they want. In any other country you would call them criminals,
in Israel they are called settlers, soldiers, officers, civil servants,
bulldozer drivers, etc.

and its actions as a Sovereign State. It is why Netanyahu scrambled to
get America to put pressure on Abbas taking matters to the ICC.
Netanyahu knows it will be the end if settlements etc get put through
the International court. It will open a can of worms that will seem bottomless.

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